A friend-of-the-court brief filed Monday was signed by 27 onetime members of the JAG corps across five military services.
By assigning JAG to prosecute a civilian offense “devoid of a military nexus, the government has crossed a perilous line,” the complaint says.
The next big phase of President Trump's mass deportations is set to begin as "deportation judges" turn to 3.6 million backlogged cases. Why it matters: Speeding up immigration court rulings could allow ICE to carry out more deportations , as most cases end in final removal orders. - Trump spent much of 2025 purging the beleaguered immigration courts. 55 immigration judges were fired, and another 80 retired. - He then went to MAGA central casting to appoint America's new top immigration judge, retired Marine Corps Col. Daren Margolin. Zoom in: Margolin retired from being an immigration judge in early 2024 because of his disgust with the Biden administration's handling of the surge at the southern border. - "Personally, I felt like a…